Musk disappointed Trump by criticizing tax and expense cuts
5. June 2025 at 20:11 I Updated at 22:43
Trump claims that the reason for a personal struggle was the loss of subsidies for electric cars.
Washington. US President Donald Trump He said on Thursday that he didn’t know if his close friendship with a billionaire Elon Musk will continue.
In his own words, he is « very disappointed » by the criticism of the former head of the State Administration Efficiency Office (Doga) Musk against a package of tax and expenditure cuts called « One Big, Beautiful Bill », reports Reuters, AP and AFP.
« Elon and I had a great relationship. I don’t know if we’ll have. I was surprised, » Trump said alongside the German office Friedrich Merz Reporter in an oval office.
Stumbling block – the end of subsidies for electromobility
Musk said in an interview with CBS that he said the law of law would increase the United States’ budget deficit and described it as « disgusting abomination ».
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« I am very disappointed because Elon knew this law better than almost anyone sitting here. Suddenly he had a problem, » Trump said.
Musk reacted to the President’s statements. « It doesn’t matter, » he wrote under a video on which Trump claims that the reason for a personal struggle was a loss of subsidies for electric cars.
Musk also marked the claim that he saw a package of tax laws before his performance, as false. According to the former Doga boss, the draft package is too comprehensive.
Trump also said in the White House, Elon Musk asked to leave his government as he was « impatient ».
« Elon was increasingly impatient, I asked him to leave and canceled his quotas for electric cars that forced everyone to buy electric cars that no one else wanted (he knew for several months to do so!)
Canceled Biden’s destination
Trump said in the next post that the easiest way to to save The money in the budget would be « to terminate Elon’s government subsidies and contracts ».
Based on the US President’s order Joea Biden of 2021, the government has set a goal that 50 percent of all new vehicles are sold in the US by 2030 or with zero emissions.
Trump announced that this intention would cancel, which, in his words, met with the disagreement of Muska, the owner of the Tesla car specializing in the production of electric cars.
Three hundred million to fight the white house
Musk said in the next post that without his help Trump would lose Presidential electionsand he described his actions as « noble ». The billionaire invested nearly $ 300 million in Trump’s campaign.
The billionaire announced his departure from Trump’s government on May 29. « At a time when my defined period of a special government employee is over, I would like to thank President Donald Trump for the opportunity to reduce unnecessary expenses, » he wrote on the social network X.
Musk was supposed to reduce government expenses and cancel various US agencies as a so -called special government employee in about half a year with his team.
Musk also pulled out Epstein
In addition, Musk said on Wednesday on his network X that the US head of state is mentioned in documents on the late sex delinquet Jeffrey Epstein, which is available to the United States government. According to him, for this reason, it has not yet published all documents concerning Epstein.
« (Donald Trump) is mentioned in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they weren’t published, » Musk said. He did not submit his claims by any evidence and did not deliver how he got to the files.
The US Department of Justice has records of Epstein, who allegedly abused minors. In 2019 he committed suicide waiting for the trial in prison.
In January last year, the Court of New York began publishing declassified documents related to the Epstein case. In the originally non-public approximately 1000-page file, the name of Donald Trump was already mentioned, but in this case, he was never charged with any mistake.
